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1) My name is Truth: the life of Sojourner Truth

Author

Turner, Ann Warren

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

[2015?]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Learn about the life of Sojourner Truth.

2) Sojourner Truth--slave, prophet, legend

Author

Mabee, Carleton

Publisher

New York University Press

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

3) Only passing through: the story of Sojourner Truth

Author

Rockwell, Anne F

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery and fought for the rights of African-Americans and women.

4) Sojourner Truth: a life, a symbol

Author

Painter, Nell Irvin

Publisher

W.W. Norton

Language

English

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Biography of Sojourner Truth, a woman born into slavery who, inspired by religion, made herself over into a strong public presence, traveling America in the years between the 1840s and late 1870s, denouncing slavery and advocating freedom, women's rights, and temperance.

5) Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a bondswoman of olden time, with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her Book of life ; also , A memorial chapter

Author

Gilbert, Olive

Series

Penguin classics

Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

1998

Language

English

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Truth's testimony to her 30 years of bondage in upstate New York and the revelations that turned her into an abolitionist.

6) Sojourner Truth: the courageous former slave whose eloquence helped promote human equality

Author

Taylor-Boyd, Susan

Series

People who have helped the world

Publisher

G. Stevens Children's Books

Pub. Date

1990

Language

English

Description

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Follows the life of the former slave who gained renown as a abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.

7) Sojourner Truth's step-stomp stride

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Pub. Date

c2009

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Appears on list

CR - Social Justice Parenting - Picture Books

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Presents the life of Sojourner Truth, discussing her childhood as a slave, the purchase of her freedom by a Quaker couple, and her subsequent work as an advocate and lecturer for the abolitionist movement.